Re: [Boost-users] [Program Options] Positional args in help message

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Program Options] Positional args in help message
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-31 12:09:14

Lindley M French wrote:

> The examples for how to use positional arguments are great and seem to work fine. However, I'm
> wondering if there's an automatic way to include that information in the help message.
> 
> In particular, since the tutorial goes to the trouble of telling you how to exclude the positional
> options from the options help, it would be nice to know what to replace it with.
> 
> I could manually write a line detailing the usage before outputting the options description, of
> course, but I was wondering if there was anything in PO to handle this automatically.

I am afraid this is not presently supported. Patches welcome :-)

- Volodya